You're reading from Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool

2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation

4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development

6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations

7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape

8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices

9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow

12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible

13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible

14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools

15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management

16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient

18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations

19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production

20. Index

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Automating a password reset using ITSM and Ansible

With the help of ITSM tools and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (or community Ansible AWX), it is possible to implement zero-touch automation use cases such as database user password resets, database provisioning, and so on. Users will interact with the ITSM tool, and the tool will interact with Ansible Automation Platform to implement the task implementation, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 8.34 – ITSM and Ansible Automation Platform integration for database operations

This programmatic automation is one of the best features of Ansible and helps organizations scale their automation landscape by integrating with existing tools and software.

Use customized forms or ticketing systems in the ITSM tool, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.35 – Jira ticket and its details

The ITSM tool, such as Jira or ServiceNow, can also be configured with custom...